Macbook Pro battery not detected under Windows
If anyone can tell me how to fix my Macbook Pro under Windows so it actually looks like I have a battery in the computer, I’d appreciate it. It worked for months, and then one day it just had a big red X over the battery indicator in the tray, and when I mouse over it, I get the message that “No battery is detected.” So now I have no idea how much battery life I have at a given moment, and I don’t trust that I will get warnings if my battery is low, so I’m afraid to use it for more than an hour and a half on battery.
I’ll Paypal you a dollar if you can help me fix this.
Edit: So here was the secret, or at least I think so. I found this quite by accident. I booted into MacOS via Bootcamp, then restarted again into Vista. All seems OK now. Not sure why - I had rebooted Vista a few times and that didn’t help, so some kind of magic OSX battery initialization thing, maybe.
July 21st, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Thank you, I knew there was a reason I left the OSX partion on this machine
August 20th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
Okay, so I don’t have a Macbook, I have a Dell.
The battery is there… it charges, and the computer runs fine without wall power. But it swears that there is no battery. Any solutions here?
February 15th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
I have the same problem with my MacBook Pro. I’m running Vista with SP1 RC1 — it showed the battery for a few weeks and was working great, then one day I got the “no battery detected” message.
Kurt, as a note you can always flip your laptop over, press the button on the battery and the green lights indicate how much juice you have left. If you only see one flashing green light then you should plug it in. I should also note that I have fully drained the battery twice on accident (didn’t realize I was unplugged) and Vista seems to handle it gracefully — I immediatly plugged back in, press the power button and I was back with all my applications still open.